Weekend with my parents, A taste of home

My Dad had work in Dusseldorf, Germany so my Mom came along. After working and visiting our family in Austria they came to visit me at my guest family's house for the weekend. When I got back from Konstanz on Saturday, they were already at the house. We ate an amazing dinner cooked by my host mother, Erika. After dinner we drank and chatted in German, while my Dad and I tried to keep up with the conversation. It is interesting, now that I've been in Germany for 6 weeks and have become accustomed to the way "High German" sounds I could hear the difference in which my Mom speaks, in an elegant Austrian dialect. 

The next day, Sunday, I took them to Horb, or well, they took me. My dad had rented a BMW for their time out in Europe. In Horb I walked them through town on my daily path. When we got back to the house my host father, Wolfgang, was grilling pork and sausages. It was a supersized lunch. We rested from the meal we had just tackled and afterwards all 5 of us went to Tubingen.

In Tubingen I showed them my dorm room and moved in a few quality items. It was way too crowded downtown due to a festival, the town was packed to capacity with people, so we didn't cruise around. Instead we went to a small town in which I forget the name and walked around. The town was a typical Swabish dorf. There was a huge church with an onion shaped dome on the top and flowers on all of the buildings. When we were done walking around we sat down at a place named Ciao. It's an ice cream and coffee place. They put together beautifully crafted pieces of ice cream art. Es war sehr gut (it was very good).

This morning my parents took me to school. Before we said our goodbyes and I walked to school we went into the Fleischerei (meat market). Andor's (my Hungarian buddy) aunt, Zitta, works there and I wanted to introduce her to my parents. She hooked us up with kostenloss essen (free food). Afterwards I hungout with my parents for a little while, but the time came that we had to say goodbye. It was sad.

All in all it was a great weekend and I was super stoked to see my parents. Here are pictures from the weekend:

Dinner, Saturday.

A handle of Maker's Mark, great gift from the states.

 Horb am Neckar.

I had just experienced a real solid sneeze.

Outside of my school in Horb, I frequent this spinning bench.

 Lunch at the host parent's house.

 En route to my dorm.

 The windows out in Germany have so many functions.

 The essentials, whiskey and Hemingway.

 Wolfgang stoked on the view.

 Communal kitchen in the dorm building.

An outside look of where I'll be living from late September to the middle of February. I believe second semester I will be attending a university in Stuttgart.

 In the small dorf, forgot the name of the place, sounds German though.

 Ciao ice cream/coffe cafe.